Douay Rheims Original ↷
Ephesians 3 📜 📕 ↷
Mystery of the Gospel
1 FOR this cause, I, Paul the prisoner of JESUS Christ, for you Gentiles:📜💬📚
2 if yet you have heard the dispensation of the grace ofGod, which is given me toward you.📜💬📚
3 because according to revelation the sacrament was made known to me, as I have written before in brief:📜💬📚
4 according as you reading, may understand my wisdom in the mystery of Christ,📜💬📚
5 which unto other generations was not known to the sons of men, as now it is revealed to his holy Apostles, and Prophets in the Spirit.📜💬📚
6 The Gentiles to be coheirs and concorporate and comparticipant of his promise in Christ JESUS by the Gospel:📜💬📚
7 whereof I am made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given me according to the operation of his power.📜💬📚
8 To me the least of all the saints is given this grace, among the Gentiles to evangelize the unsearchable riches of Christ,📜💬📚
9 & to illuminate all men what is the dispensation of the sacrament hidden from worlds in God, who created all things:📜💬📚
10 that the manifold wisdom of God, may be notified to the Princes & Potestates in the celestials by the Church,📜💬📚
11 according to the prefinition of worlds, which he made in Christ JESUS our Lord.📜💬📚
12 In whom we have affiance and access in confidence by the faith of him.📜💬📚
13 For the which cause I desire that you faint not in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.📜💬📚
Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians
14 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord JESUS Christ,📜💬📚
15 of whom all paternity in the Heavens and in earth is named,📜💬📚
16 that he give you according to the riches of his glory, power to be fortified by his Spirit in the inner man.📜💬📚
17 Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts, rooted and founded in charity,📜💬📚
18 that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height and depth,📜💬📚
19 to know also the charity of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.📜💬📚
20 And to him that is able to do all things more aboundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:📜💬📚
21 to him be glory in the CHURCH, and in Christ JESUS, unto all generations world without end. Amen.📜💬📚
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